World Bank
Nutrition for Growth (N4G) commitment to 2020
Reported progress
Assessment
The World Bank considers nutrition investments as a key to human capital development and poverty reduction. Over the next two years (from mid-2017 to mid-2019), at least $1.7 billion in nutrition financing has already been identified for delivery across 30 countries in the IDA18 pipeline. This is a significantly increased commitment and represents strong ownership of this critical agenda by both the World Bank and national governments, since IDA is demand-driven by national governments.
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The Bank Group projects that it will nearly triple direct financing for maternal and early childhood nutrition programs in developing countries in 2013-14 to USD $600 million, up from USD $230 million in 2011-12.
Nutrition specific, 2017: n/a
Nutrition Sensitive, 2017: n/a
Reported progress in previous Global Nutrition Reports indicates that commitment has been achieved.
Commit to reviewing every project in the agriculture pipeline as a step toward ramping up activities that improve nutrition outcomes.
Review of agricultural projects for nutrition-sensitivity is ongoing. In FY19, 60 percent of IBRD/IDA agriculture projects were deemed as nutrition-sensitive (defined as having at least one activity that a) contributes to improving health outcomes, for example, through production of diverse, safe, and nutrient-rich food; income generation that can facilitate access to health services through reducing contamination of water sources; and through the application of labour-saving technologies; and b) is conducted with the explicitly stated purpose of improving nutrition, such as by reducing malnutrition among women and children, reducing stunting, improving individual child/woman or household dietary diversity, improving micronutrient intake). List of NSA activities include:
- Biofortification (growing of, research on, introduction of biofortified crops)
- Food fortification (as part of food processing such as enriched flour milling)
- Explicit reference to the quality and nutritional value of agricultural produce and production
- Improving marketing opportunities for nutritious food including nutrition knowledge activities such as nutrition messages in agriculture extension training (e.g. home economics type training such as food preservation)
- Improved food preservation
- Improving dietary diversity and consumption (e.g. backyard gardens, keyhole gardens, backyard poultry, horticulture, cultivation of pulses, fish ponds/aquaculture)
- Labor- and time-saving technologies (for women)
- Increasing the year round availability of nutrient-rich foods such as fruits, vegetables, legumes, fish, milk, poultry, meat
- Increasing the year round availability of staples (emphasis should be on the temporal aspect: "year round availability")
Review of agricultural projects is ongoing.
Increase by more than 50% its technical and analytical support to countries with the greatest prevalence of stunting or underweight children. Add stunting as a new indicator on the World Bank Group’s (WBG’s) Corporate Scorecard.
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Reported progress in previous Global Nutrition Reports indicates that commitment has been achieved.